Non-refillable bottle.



No.,655,64|'. Patented Aug. 7, |900.\

J. M. URGELLES.

NDN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Alu-.'21, 1900.)

(No Model.)

WITNESS/5S l A7TOHNEYS IosE MARCELINO UEGELLEs, oE NEW YORK, N. Y.

NONNREFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,641, dated August 7, 1900.

l Application tiled April 21, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosE MARCELINO UR- GELLS, of New York, in the county of New YorkY and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Non-Rehliable Bottles, of which the following is a specication. 4

My invention is--in the nature of a non-reiillable bottle designed to insure to the purchaser the purity and gen u'ineness of the contents Voriginally placed therein, and which bottles when once emptied cannot be reiilled with a spurious article.

It relates to that form of bottle in which two balls are held in a valve-seat arranged to be locked in the neck of the bottle beneath the cork, the larger one of which balls acts as a valve to permit the outflow of liquid and the smaller of which balls acts as a back bearing to follow up and hold the larger ball to its seat. i

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of the device for rendering it safer as'against being tampered with and for promoting cleanliness and certainty of action, as will be hereinafter fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-j- Figure l is a vertical section of the valvecasing and valve. Fig. 2 is a detached View of the spiral protecting cage or guard. Fig. 3 is a detached view ofthe conical runway for the smaller ball. Fig. l.Lis a bottom end view of the valve-casing. Fig. 5 is a crosssection on line 5 5 of Fig. 8. Fig. Gis a top view of a protecting-shield for the valve mechanism. Fig. 7 is a side view of the valve-casing; and Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the neck of the bottle with the valve-casing and valve, the shield, and the cork all in place.

In the drawings, A represents a short cylinder, of glass, .Wholly open at its upper end and having at its lower end a smaller opening bordered by an inwardly-projectin g flange forming a valve-seat for the ball-valve D. In the lower portion of this cylinder there are formed inwardly-projecting longitudinal ribs a, forming a runway or guide-rail for the ballvalve to roll on as the ball D rises from its seat in the act of pouring out the liquid. The cylindrical valve-casing, with ribs a, are all formed of glass and in one piece. On the senin No. 13,729. (No model.)

top of the ribs a there is supported a conical cap B, also made of glass and permanently united to the ribs a by fusion. This conical cap has a longitudinal slot b running through its side from end to end, through which the liquid passes from the valve to the space around the cone and within the cylinder. This cone B forms both a passage-wayfor the 6o liquid and a receiving-chamber for the small ball d, which forms the back bearing or follower to the valve-ball D. When the ball al rolls into the cone, it will be seen that the slot b will allow the liquid to pass out from the cone, no matter what the position ot' the ball in the cone may be.

, Around the cone B, of glass, there is arranged a spiral cage or coil C, alsomade of glass. This is permanently tiXed in place by 7o being fused at its upper end to the projecting lugs b on the top of the cone and is also rigidly secured at its lower end by fusion to the side Walls of the cylindrical casing A. The object of this cage is to form a protectingguard which will prevent the reaching of the balls bya slender rod or wire and lifting them to refill the bottle.

The ball-valve D,of glass,is made relatively light in proportion to its bulk by being formed 8o hollow,as shown, so that its weight is only a little heavier than the saine bulk of, liquid, While the follower-ball CZ is much heavier in proportion to its size, being made ot' metal coated with a porcelain glaze or enamel. When this follower-ball d rests upon the valve-ball,said ball d passes part the way between two adjacent ribs a a, as seen in Fig.

5, and thus wedges and holds the ball-valve more tightly, and at the same time is removed 9o to an eccentric position, so that it is less likely to be tampered with. The object in making the valve D hollow is to make it light'and more sensitive in action and less likely to be jammed by its own Weight, and the object in making the follower-ballet relatively heavy is to give it good backing-up or holding power on the ball-valve and at the same time give it such small dimensions as to allowthe i liquid room to freely pass it and lalso tobetter Ioo permit it to drop to an eccentric position between the ribs a.

To tix the valve in the neck of the bottle, the latter is made rather long and is formed on its inner'walls,fnear the lower end,with an inwardly-opening transverse groove g, as seen in Fig.8. On the outer-surface of the lower end of cylindrical valve-casing thereis formed a surrounding groove @Qin which is laid a packin g-strip of cork,softrubber, or a cotton string, which fitting closely to the walls of the bottlc-neck makes a tight joint. Just above this groove in the cylindrical casing there is on one side a hemispherical recess a2, forming a seat to receive a little cork or rubber cushion e,on which rests a little glass ball @,which is arranged to be pressed inwardly against the cork or rubber cushion e while the cylinder A is being forced down the neck of the bottle, and which ball when it reaches the groove g in the neck of the bottle springs outwardly from its elastic backing and entering the groove g locks the valve-casing in the neck of the bottle. Instead of making this locking device in the form of a ball it may be elongated transversely in the form of a curved bar c2, seated in a curved recess formed transversely in the casing, as seen in Fig. 5. Such locking devices may be either upon one or both sides, as shown. There is a distinct function in making one of these locking devices in the form of an elongated curved bar e2 and the other in the form of a ball c, for if two balls were employed the valve-casing would be held at two diametrical points on pivots, and it would have a tendency to turn and chatter in transportation about such diametrical pivots. By making one in the form of a ball and the other an elongated bai1 e2, curved transversely, the sensitive yielding of the ball makes the casing easy to insert and the long bearing of the curved bar e2 prevents pivotal action and holds the casing firmly in place. After the valve-casing has been locked in place in the bottle-neck, as described, a round shield E, Fig. 6, of enameled metal or any other non-corrosive material, is loosely placed upon the top of the valve-casing, and the cork is then inserted above it, as seen in Fig. 8. This shield has a small loop-handle l, by which it may be removed. The object of such shield is to prevent accidental protrusion of the corkscrew below the cork from doing damage .to the valve-casing and its contained part and to prevent particles of cork from falling int-o and obstructing the action of the valve.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-VV l. The spiral coil C, combined with a ballvalve casing and a central conical cap, said spiral coil being arranged around the central conical cap and between its walls and those of the valve-casing, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a non-refillable bottle the combination with a valve-casing having a central conical chamber, of two balls both made of greater specific gravity than the liquid contents, the larger ballbeing made of glass and hollow, and the smaller ball being made of metal and enameled substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination with a bottle-neck having a transverse internal groove; of a valvecasing having in its exterior wall a recess upon each side one hemispherical and the other a curved transverse groove, an elastic cushion and ball arranged in one, and an elastic cushion and curved locking-piece in the other substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a non-retillable bottle, the combination with the bottle-neck, a rigidly-locked valve-casing in the lower yend of said neck and a cork in the upper end of the same; of

a detachable vtransverse shield made of nonfrangible material, said shield being formedv 

